Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&Ne=7431&N=3+7455&N=7431 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1752873 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754414 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754415 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754416 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713743 Shaman Joanne Walker returns to North Carolina to find her missing father and meet Aidan, the son she left behind long ago. But Aidan has become tainted by an evil reaching forward from the distant past. It will take everything Joanne has to pull the past apart and weave a better future--for her, her son, and the Appalachians. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713744 A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759343 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712810 Recently returned from the experience of a lifetime in fin de sicle Vienna, where she met and tragically lost the first great love of her life, Eleanor Burden has no choice but to marry and settle into her expected place in society. Her story is not unlike those of the other privileged young women she grew up with in 1890s Boston, with one exception: Eleanors unshakable belief that she has advance knowledge of every major historical event to come in her lifetime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707054 Persephone Alcmedis beloved foster daughter, Beverley, has been playing with a magical artifact thats far more dangerous than she realizes. Now Persephone must summon help from a mystical being so potent that even vampires fear him ... and the cost of his aid may be more than shes willing to pay. Seph, Johnny, and Menessos face threats from all side -- and a few from within. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704662 In the aftermath of the surrenders of Germany and Japan in October 1945, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS are given the life-threatening task of maintaining security during a covert U.S. deal with Germany for intelligence about the identities of Soviet spies in the American atomic bomb program. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754418 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754435 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759344 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729573 Nadias memories of her father are not happy ones. An angry, secretive man, he died when she was thirteen, leaving his past shrouded in mystery. When a stranger claims to have known her father during his early years in Eastern Europe, she agrees to meet--only to watch the man shot dead on a city sidewalk. With his last breath, he whispers a cryptic clue, one that will propel Nadia on a high-stakes treasure hunt from New York to her ancestral homeland of Ukraine. There she meets an unlikely ally: Adam, a teenage hockey prodigy who honed his skills on the abandoned cooling ponds of Chernobyl. Physically and emotionally scarred by radiation syndrome, Adam possesses a secret that could change the world--if she can keep him alive long enough to do it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707287 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753692 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759618 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695930 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731312 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735840 When their strait-laced, domineering father, Sir Clement Carnell, dies, Valentine throws open their Devonshire estate of Pennacombe to their fashionable cousins from London and Louisa feels free at last to reject the man Sir Clement wanted her to marry. Soon, the temptations of Regency London beckon, including the beautiful, scandalous, and very married Lady Harriet Eversholt, with whom Valentine becomes dangerously involved. Meanwhile, Louisa finds that freedom of choice is as daunting as it is exciting. Will the opportunity to indulge in a little folly lead to fulfillment--or disaster? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704663 Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681209 The Berlin office of the worlds most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754419 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754436 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759006 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713746 Roughneck detectives Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take on an apparently straightforward assignment -- discourage a man from harassing his estranged wife -- that is, until the husband is murdered and more bodies turn up. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712987 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759345 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738596 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743566 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753887 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753693 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743734 Presents a multigenerational saga detailing the history of Paris, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of cultural activity during the 1920s and 1930s. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732465 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731314 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694678 Motherlunge is an eloquent and irreverent novel about first sex, true love, chronic sibling rivalry; its about the deepest fear of young (and not-so-young) adulthood: the fear of inheriting a disappointing live. Its motherly advice, too--featuring wigs, dogs, road trips, and medicine--a guide to the essential experiences of being female, born unto a librarian, named for the goddess of sight, waiting for the future to arrive. With sly wit and surprising joy, Motherlunge considers the flaws in the family line and celebrates the promise that staggers alongside--Front flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742419 In the 1940s, Coden, Alabama was a hideaway for movie stars - an isolated playground tucked among live oaks and placid bay waters where pleasure and vice could be indulged. By the summer of 1974 Codens glamour has faded, but it doesnt bother Mimi Bosarge, who is just happy to have a job as a live-in tutor with the wealthiest family in town, the Hendersons. When the Hendersons generously open their arms to Annie, a troubled teenager with no recollection of her past, Mimis greatest concern is creating a curriculum for the familys new ward. But it soon becomes obvious that something is wrong. Annie seems suspiciously savvy for her young age, and Mimi cant quell the unnerving sense that there is something malicious about the waiflike beauty. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735841 Egotistic wine critic Clyde Craven-Jones gives a bottle of Cabernet the highest score on his self-devised scale, but the bottles unknown provenance leads to problems ranging from compromised positions in a fermentation tank and an internal family squabble becoming a public scandal. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743498 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704664 Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715745 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754454 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754420 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687074 Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs. But when Odd Thomas and company stop to spend the night, they discover that theres more to this secluded haven than meets the eye. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703816 Meri Briscoe hoped her big city problems were over after moving back to Rock Springs. The former lawyer opened up a cafe to save her grandmother Lilahs farm from foreclosure and found love in the comforting arms of handsome rancher Caleb Burkett. But who knew being happy could be so complicated? Everyone thinks that Meri and Caleb are meant to be husband and wife, but when it comes to their business partnership, the two couldnt be more wrong for each other. Theres more conflict coming out of their kitchen than there are cookies. But theres more at stake than a cafe, and Meri and Caleb just need to agree on the right ingredients to make their future as sweet as their tea.-- P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704712 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704293 A novel about a mysterious mail-order bride in the wake of World War II, whose sudden decision ripples through time to deeply impact the daughter she never knew. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738918 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715300 A portrait of 1970s Botswana is told through the intertwined stories of three people, including a medical student who is forced to flee apartheid South Africa after witnessing a murder and an American Ph.D. student who abandons her studies to follow her husband to Africa. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754437 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759007 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1751068 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739238 When archaeologist Chloe Broussard accepts the contract to lead a dig in Ornes, France, she has no idea she will uncover the Veil of Veronica. When she does, she discovers a danger far greater than the demonic presence stalking her at night. Azazel wants her, as well as the Veronica, and his chosen minion is her brother. Her hope lies with immortal Templar Knight Lucan. Her life depends on oaths she knows nothing about. For countless centuries, Lucan of Seacourt has lived with the knowledge that his brother killed their family. Now, as Azazels darkness eats away at his soul, old betrayal stirs suspicion. He trusts no one. Not even the seraph who can heal his dying spirit. With the fate of the Almighty hanging in the balance, Lucan must find faith in something more terrifying than the dark lords creations. He must learn to believe his heart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712988 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738908 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754159 From the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead, a new crime thriller featuring DS Logan McRae. The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker? Someones leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRaes house, but hes got more pressing things to worry about. Rival drug gangs are fighting over product and territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someones crippling Asian immigrants; and Logans been lumbered with an ambitious new Detective Sergeant, a mountain of paperwork, and the unwelcome attention of his superiors and the local crime boss. When another body turns up, it looks as if the similarities between these murders and the plot of a bestselling novel are more than just a coincidence. And perhaps those little knots of bones are more important than they look... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759346 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716210 When Henry Cooper sets out on his mail route on Arcadia Street one crisp spring morning, he has no idea that his world is about to change. He is simply enjoying the sunshine as he lights up a cigar and tosses the match to the ground, entirely unaware that he has just started a fire that will destroy a neighborhood and kill a young wife--Amazon. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705410 When he is consulted on a cold case involving the discovery of infant remains at a neglected Tudor mansion, psychologist Alex Delaware, tracing the long history of past residents, is led down a bloody path littered with unspeakable cruelty. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729577 On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life shed aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined medical engineer noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759363 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759113 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738597 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743567 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1757390 Sisters Brooklyn and Savannah investigate when a friend is found dead after receiving an antique cookbook with weird symbols and unreadable notes written in the margins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743735 Amateur astronomer Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised. Then she meets Isaac Martin, a young, dark-skinned whaler from the Azores who, like herself, has ambitions beyond his expected station in life. Drawn to his intellectual curiosity and honest manner, Hannah agrees to take Isaac on as a student. But when their shared interest in the stars develops into something deeper, Hannahs standing in the community begins to unravel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732466 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731315 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704390 When she takes the case of missing webcam performer Lula Belle, private investigator Brenna Spector, convinced that the woman has ties to her sister, who disappeared years earlier, becomes trapped in a web of obsession, sex, guilt and murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734857 Fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi faces the destruction of everything she knows and a new life living among the enemy after American bombers attack her city with napalm, leaving the city in ruins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750531 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693987 A collection of stories which includes Home, a wryly whimsical account of a soldiers return from war; Victory lap, a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753798 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735842 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1751254 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678823 A nation is obsessed with a hot nightclub waitress accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter. The shocking verdict creates an immediate uproar. But when an innocent, young woman ends up dead in a riot, there may be something bigger at work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733285 Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such revelatory and thought-provoking* novels as Triggers and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella Identity Theft and his Aurora Award-winning short story Biding Time, and set on a lawless Mars in a future where everything is cheap, and life is even cheaper... Alex Lomax is the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny OReilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded to Mars in the Great Martian Fossil Rush. Trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, Lomax tracks down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers--lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when he uncovers clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and OReilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what hell dig up... The Globe and Mail-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734525 When assassin Gin Blanco, a.k.a. the Spider, is robbed and taken hostage at gunpoint during the biggest gala event of the summer at Ashlands fanciest art museum, she is more than happy to show these unlucky thieves that red is her favorite color. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704665 Marrying the much-older king of England in the year 1002, sixteen-year-old Emma of Normandy is surrounded by a treacherous court and regarded as a threat by her husband before drawing on her wits to gain a few friends and protect her station. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704422 When Harry and Madeleine Winslow meet Claire, they are drawn to her youth, quiet intelligence, and naivete, and over the course of the summer, reverence transforms into dangerous desire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715665 Blake Harrison is in need of a wife by Wednesday. Samatha Elliot is the owner of a matchmaking firm and not on the martial menu...that is, until Blake offers her ten million dollars for a one-year contract. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715835 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715749 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732026 In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from the Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Halo extermination. Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood. The Precursors created many technological species, including humanity and the Forerunners. But the roots of the Flood may be found in an act of enormous barbarity, carried out beyond our galaxy ten million years before...Because of that barbarism, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and the Librarian--husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict--hold the keys to a solution. Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time--to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754455 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754421 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715319 When a murdered body is discovered in the sacred Temple in 29 C.E. Jerusalem, ranking rabbi Gamaliel teams up with the physician Loukas to solve the crime and restore peace, a situation that is further complicated by additional killings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759396 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703818 Forced by her family into an engagement with a man she can never abide, Antigone Preston knows only a scandal will save her from a loveless marriage. But knocking a man down to the ballroom floor with her fists brings dangerous consequences. She may have ruined her reputation, but now shes endangered her heart. The son of an earl and a career navy man, Captain William Jellicoe has no interest in the frivolities of London-and even less in the institution of marriage. But theres something steering him toward Antigone. He has never met anyone as brazen and unconventional as...himself. But will he risk it all for a woman who still has the breath of scandal hot on her lips?--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704717 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713057 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759258 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685946 Conducting a senior center crafting class to earn extra money after her gambler husband passes away and leaves her with numerous debts, crafts editor Anastasia Pollack investigates the untimely murder of a creative resident with a scandalous past, a case that implicates Anastasias cantankerous mother-in-law. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738919 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759057 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704552 A debut novel about a young journalist at D.C.s hottest and most cut-throat political rag who uncovers a scandal sure to turn the Beltway inside out. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754438